William Shakespeare once said, “We know what we are, but what not what we may be”. The internet have transformed our way of thinking. It is now easier to pretend to be someone or something else thanks to the interent. We can all probably agree that we have one or two false social media account where we truly speak what is on our mind without facing any consequences for our words. Everyone’s online identity is false because it allows them to create an ideal or fake persona, use social media to trick others online for personal gain, stalk others online which gives us the feeling of how do we keep falling for these false online identites and what do we consider real of fake online. The first reason why everyone has a false identity online is …show more content…
“One study found that 88% of people spy on their exes on social media after a breakup through looking at their pictures and status updates, sometimes via a mutual friend” (Smith). These who are creating false identities are now basically getting a free pass to look at their victim lives. People who post things on social now got to worry about being stalked online now. Wouldn’t you find it creepy for someone you never have meet to know all about because of false online identities because I would find it creepy if someone out there is getting a free pass to look at my daily life? These things are now increasingly becoming normalised online. False online identities have now created online stalkers but why do we keep falling for these same old …show more content…
“Sockpuppetry – using false identities for deception – is centuries old, but the advent of the web has made creating sockpuppets, and falling for their tricks, easier than ever before.”(Seife). Why are we as a society, keep falling for these same deceptions time after time? Based on one of my earlier sources, it says a reason why we might keep falling for these deceptions are our instincts. “It’s partially an evolutionary default. We’re social creatures, that’s just what we do: We see a pattern that looks like an individual and we think it must be a real person” (Smith). It looks like we are creatures of habit, we continue around a certain pattern in our life. We as a society won’t probably get out of this loop of deception, but now we have to wonder if something is now real or
Over the years people have all safeguarded their personal identities for the risks of emotional pain that others can cause, the recent use of the online identity being another fortification to this protection. However this has lead people to confuse which identity is their personal one and which is their online one, because of the development of taking technology with you. This can harm one’s relationships with close friends and family that sometimes get confused for the others. With the consequences of bring aspects of online identity into personal identities, many people find it hard to maintain the boundaries of these two. The first step is to understand the problem so one can better see how each identity can fix into its place and still be able to protect them from any positional emotional scarring.
Reading “The Quagmire of Social Media Friendships”, Curtis Silver expresses his idea of who we consider to be our friends when it comes to social media. What stood out to me in this essay is how Silver asked if social media created fake friends. In which I have decided to define the term fake friends. When I think of the term fake friends, I think of someone who claims to be a true friend, when in fact they are quite the opposite. Fake friends in my opinion are those who will talk negatively about you behind your back, they could really care less about that your feelings or what you think even. I also feel that fake friends are those who use you in order to achieve something that benefits them and only them. In terms of social media, If someone
For centuries, humans have used their interaction with one another to help shape outsiders' perceptions of them. Often communication experts refer to this as constructing one’s “social identity.” For many years, this projection of self-came through interpersonal communication; face-to-face communication or other forms of personal interaction. In the progress of technology, this development of one’s personal attributes has come to include photographs, letters, published and unpublished writings, and physical attributes. Many aspects of a person’s “identity” as others see it are difficult and almost impossible to define. In the modern age, such vague characteristics are both helped and hindered by using social media and the internet to “construct”
The difference between Rodriguez’s struggle between identity and Angelou’s struggle is that, Angelou’s identity’s center of focus is her name, while Rodriguez’s identity seems to revolve around his “complexion”. Although they both wrote about the struggle with their own identity, the views and attitude of the two authors differ. In Richard Rodriguez’s essay “Complexion” and Maya Angelou’s essay “Mary” both authors illustrate some hardships they faced during their life, such as their experience with racism and prejudice. In spite of the fact that they are both faced with similar situations, the actuality that sets apart their characters is how they dealt with each of their situations.
This idea is expressed in (Source 3, lines 6-16) as the author gets in-depth with explaining how you can be anyone you want to online, and no one will ever have to know. There is even a show on tv called "Catfish", where people meet the person they've met online in real life. More often then not, the person turns out to not be who they say they are. This is a danger to society, because everyday people are faced with the opportunity to fake an identity and do harmful things or seek classified
Stealing the identity of another is not an honest act. However, the Internet allows many opportunities for exploration of identity and has displayed personal social exploration to fulfill their curiosity. According to Lemke (1998), young people develop a sense of full presence online, living in them semiotically as they make cultural and personal sense of their participation. The shaping of an identity plays a vital role in the online world especially in having sustained online presence within any particular online-group. Turkle (1995) believes identity tinkering online opens the potential for young people to take risks and to explore all aspects of one's identity.
In my paper, I will take a look at one particular negative result of this unintentional public showcasing of private information in new media: Stalking. What is the natural place to stalk? With more than half a million users using Facebook to share phot...
“All the world 's a stage, and all the men and women merely player… ” (2.7.146-47). Shakespeare’s poem pointed out everyone is only actors on the stage of this world. Goffman (1959) has a similar theory with Shakespeare that everyone is a performance; at any given moment, we play different roles. Through social media, everyone can carefully select what role that we want to project on virtual sphere.I argue that my identity changed varies different platform. In this essay, I discovered who am I online, what roles I was playing and how did I manage the impression I crave to give others on Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Line.
they say they are," (Source 3). When you are on the Internet nobody can see who you are, making it simple to change your identity. Anyone on social media can lie about their age, gender, location, and a lot more. An innocent conversation with a total stranger on the Internet
Social Networking sites play an essential role in today’s culture as they provide people with the ability to interact, blog, share pictures and videos, flirt, and date without having to move an inch. People pour their minds and hearts into the world of cyber communication; it is an easier way for them to clear their heads without having a face-to-face confrontation. Undoubtedly, this is advantageous to certain people. It helps establish connections with people, friends and family from any corner of the world, but one cannot ignore the extensive privacy breach that occurs in the universe of online social media.
Social networking sites have become popular over the years, like twitter, which allows users to present themselves through their tweets using photos, hyperlinks, or hashtags. Boyd (2010) argued that social media platforms like Twitter encourages members to use their actual identities but it does not mean people are presenting themselves online the way they do in real life.
Multiple identities have been increased by the creation of cyberspace communications according to "Cyberspace and Identity" by Sherry Turkle. Turkle uses four main points to establish this argument. Her first point is that online identity is a textual construction. Secondly she states that online identity is a consequence-free moratorium. Turkle's third point is online identity expands real identity. Finally, her last point states that online identity illustrates a cultural concept of multiplicity. I disagree with many aspects of her argument and I have found flaws in her argument. Technology is an area that does not stand still and consequently outpaced Turkle's argument.
The television series of this show “Catfish” shows us that there are many individuals out there like Angela, who create completely fabricated identities, for many different reasons. Whether it is malicious or a release for the person; It is an escape from reality in most cases. This alerts us to the dangers of social media, and makes us wary of meeting new people online, as all may not be what it seems.
The presence of social media is a large contributing factor in the release of fake
Mccarty, K. M. 2012. Examination of How One's Perceived Online Identity on Social Media Affects One's Perceived Real-Life Identity.